[wastedyears]

So let’s stop sending them checks.

[2ndDivisionVet]

If we stopped sending them checks, the lease would be null & void and Castro could take the territory back. Besides, $50K a year rent for a naval base is chicken feed.

[ops33]

Years ago in a college history class I remember the prof talking about the Spanish-American War and Guantanamo. IIRC, the treaty signed with the new Cuban government gives the US the naval base in perpetuity as long as we make the payments.

If that is correct, to stop making the payments means we would be giving up the base. I think that some time in the future when Cuba is no longer under a communist dictatorship we will leave Guantanamo.